Giovanni Battista Galeno

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Giovanni Battista Galeno (c. 1550 - after 1626) was a composer and cantor. Born in Udine around 1550 , he was the son of master Vincenzo shoemaker and, later, administrator of the post office in Gorizia. It is unknown where he completed his musical training: the news of his apprenticeship (with payment of bail by his father) in Venice, reported only by Pressacco, has so far not been confirmed, while G. in a preliminary letter to the madrigals from 1598 he remembers that from the early years of his youth he had been in the service of the Habsburgs. In fact, accounting documents prove his presence as a "tall" cantor at least since 1572 at the court of Charles II in Graz. On June 16 of that year, G. presented himself to the chapter of Aquileia with letters of recommendation from the archduke aimed at obtaining him some ecclesiastical benefit; from these it appears that he had already taken the prescribed test "in lectura et cantu" and that he was found to be suitable. While waiting for a benefit to become available, he served as a cantor in Udine at the Hospital of S. Maria della Misericordia (from September 1572 to June 1573) and on August 15, 1572 he was hired as an organist for a year in the parish church of S. Maria Assunta in Fagagna . Finally on March 16, 1573 he obtained a chapel at the cathedral of Aquileia, with the condition, however, to embrace sacred orders as soon as possible and to celebrate mass; on April 9, 1574, when he was ordained deacon, he was already among

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